A Gallup poll [1]released on Friday shows that the number of Americans who identify as environmentalists has dropped 36 points, from 78 percent in 1991 to 42 percent in 2016. There has also been a decline in Americans expressing concern about environmental problems, such as pollution.

The Earth Day poll [1] is conducted annually by Gallup. The polling firm cites the politicization of environmental issues as one possible reason for the decline, highlighting the growing partisan gap in those who identify as environmentalists.

A large percentage of Americans (Republicans and Democrats)  78 percent  considered themselves environmentalists in 1991. That number today is 42 percent.

Also, only 27 percent of Republicans identify as environmentalists, compared with 56 percent of Democrats, a partisan gap of 29 percentage points.

Hmmmm. It's a poll so........... Anyway, it's not that we don't care about the environment, it's that we're tired of taking blame/credit for whatever happens NATURALLY. Hello. Yes we should be good stewards of it but we should also use the resources provided. Somebody may get a visit from the Climate Denial Policing Unit.

At one time you could get broad agreement across the political spectrum on things like “it should not be dark in Pittsburgh at noontime” and “we really should not flush raw sewage from five cities into Lake Erie”.

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